June, 1931 



THE I. A. A. RECORD 



Page Five 



2,500 McDonough Folks 

 -And Guests Hold Jubilee 



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Capacity Crowd Hear Co-op. Mar- 

 keting Debated in Teachers* 

 College Auditorium 



TWENTY-FIVE hundred Farm Bu- 

 reau members and their guests gath- 

 ered in the Western IlHnois State Teach- 

 ers' College, Macomb, on May 20, for 

 a Cooperation Jubilee dedicating the 

 McDonough County Livestock Market- 

 ing Association organized there. Repre- 

 sentatives from western Illinois counties 

 as far north as Whiteside and as far 

 south as Madison came for the celebra- 



Donald Kirkpatrick 



tion. The McDonough County Farm 

 Bureau and Country Life Insurance Co. 

 sponsored the gathering. 



A feature of the evening was the de- 

 bate staged by Donald Kirkpatrick of 

 the Illinois Agricultural Association and 

 Lawrence Williams of the Country Life 

 Insurance Company on the question 

 "Resolved, That Illinois Farmers Are 

 Not Ready for Cooperative Marketing." 



Speaking for the affirmative, Mr. 

 Williams stated that many farmers are 

 not yet supporting the cooperatives al- 

 ready organized; that too many have 

 shown no disposition to make use of 

 their opportunities to control their own 

 marketing machinery. Mr. Kirkpatrick 

 for the negative reviewed the many 

 successes Illinois farmers have already 

 achieved in the field of cooperative 

 marketing; asserted that farmers had 

 responded loyally to every sound plan 

 advanced, although their leaders in some 

 instances had failed them. 



* ' ' Leadership at Fault 



"It's not the producers who are at 



fault," said Kirkpatrick. "They have 



been ready and willing to co-operate 



whenever a sound set-up was offered 



that promised to improve the old sys- 

 tem. Failure of leadership and manage- 

 ment should be charged with responsi- 

 bility for projects which have not suc- 

 ceeded." 



Ray E. Miller, livestock marketing 

 director, Illinois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion, and .Dave Swanson, manager, Chi- 

 cago Producers Commission Association, 

 preceded the debaters, while the Paw- 

 nee quartette from Sanagamon countv 

 appeared between speeches and provided 

 lively entertainment. 



A feature of the program was the 

 historical style show presented under 

 the direction of the Eldorado unit of 

 the McDonough county Home Bureau 

 and under the personal direction of Mrs. 

 Ralph Nelson. 



This historical style show traced the 

 development of women's styles during 

 the past 100 years. . ■ ■ ' . 



Musical Features 



The singing of the Pawnee Four with 

 their extemporaneous paraphrasing of 

 the speeches of the program, brought 

 down the house with laughter. Bernie 

 Young and his broadcasting orchestra 

 from Chicago also provided entertain- 

 ment. 



R. C. Doneghue, farm adviser, in- 

 troduced the past presidents of the 

 Farm Bureau, the present executive 

 committee of that organization, and the 

 livestock marketing committee under 

 whose direction the organization of the 

 Marketing Association has been carried 

 out. 



Miss Irene Crouch, county Home Bu- 

 reau adviser, introduced the executive 

 board of the Home Bureau. 



McDonough Leads 



The staging of the Jubilee came as a 

 reward to McDonough county when 

 the Country Life Insurance company's 

 general agent, G. O. Chenoweth, and 

 his seventeen special agents led the state 

 in sales during the month of April. 



Special agents who were introduced 

 by Mr. Chenoweth, were: Edwin C. 

 Ogle, Maurice Moon, Austin Reed, Ma- 

 rion Herzog, Daniel J. Vahle, M. C. 

 Pollock, Carl Mowrey, J. F. Stickle, R. 

 Burdette Graham, F. M. Allison, H. D. 

 Lantz, Owen Stickle, W. E. Siepel, 

 Frank Stump, C. O. Reedy, Philip Mar- 

 shall, and LeRoy Sinnett. 



Managers of the various cooperative 

 organizations of the Farm Bureau were 

 also introduced. 



Fred Herndon, president of the Farm 

 Bureau, was the presiding chairman of 

 the Jubilee. 



The new McDonough County Live- 

 stock Marketing Association at Ma- 

 comb with more than 500 members 

 will assemble, grade ahd ship livestock 

 on orders direct to the packer or to 

 the cornbelt and eastern markets. 



L. A. WilliaiiiN 



Five More Debates 



MORE than 800 Farm Bureau mem- 

 bers, their guests and families 

 from Bond and surrounding counties 

 gathered at Greenville on Thursday, 

 May 21, where Larry Williams and 

 Donald Kirkpatrick held the second of 

 their series of debates on co-operative 

 marketing. The Bond County Farm 

 Bureau and Country Life Insurance 

 Company sponsored the meeting. 



Similar gatherings where debates be- 

 tween Kirkpatrick and Williams will be 

 the principal attraction were scheduled 

 for June 12 at the Wheaton High 

 School, DuPage county; June 15, La- 

 Grange, Cook county; June 29, Ed- 

 wardsville, Madison county; June 30, 

 Sparta, Randolph county, and July 1, 

 Louisville, Clay county. 



The seven counties in which debates 

 have been held or scheduled placed high- 

 est in the amount of life insurance busi- 

 ness written by Country Life agents 

 during April. 



Country Life Submits 



New Endowment Policy 



A new endowment insurance policy 

 which matures at age 65 was recently 

 brought out by the Country Life Insur- 

 ance Company. 



A $10,000 policy will start paying an 

 income at age 65 of $78.50 per month 

 plus monthly interest dividends. The 

 $78.50 is guaranteed for life and should 

 the insured die before having received 

 10 years of this income, the heirs or 

 estate will receive the difference between 

 what has been paid since age 65 and a 

 total of 10 years of this income, in one 

 lump sum. 



This policy was submitted to the 

 State Insurance Department for ap- 

 proval following its adoption by the 

 Board of Directors. It will not be avail- 

 able to policyholders until the state's 

 permission is received. 



